AN EASY MORPHOLOGY FOR BEGINNER LEARNERS TO ACQUIRE THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Abstract

The acquisition of beginner students of the English Language at Bondowoso Islamic Institute is quite difficult. It has happened because their mother tongues are Indonesian and Madurese language. Besides, in senior high school, they did not pay attention or understand English. Some students also have a background knowledge in Islamic boarding school which is only learning the Arabic Language without knowing the English. So, when they are studying at Bondowoso Islamic Institute, they find difficulties in determining the parts of speech such as nouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs. Especially, when a base word has additional suffixes, it will change the part of speech and the word's meaning. For example, the word manage as a verb becomes the noun manager when added by the suffix -er; and then becomes the adjective managerial when added by suffix -ial. These processes confuse some students in determining the part of speech correctly to use in a sentence. Therefore, the researcher has a solution for this case which can make the students in Bondowoso Islamic Institute easier in understanding the changeable process happening in part of speech. This analysis used Bauer's theory with Bracelet structure to acquire the English language easly. The method used in this analysis is a documentary study and questionnaire. The result from this analysis is the student felt helped by the bracelet structure and some categories of suffixes that form another part of speech when added to the base word.